Colin Gibson

This is called being placed under Citizen's Rest

It’s the guy from the 1965 bob dylan press conference.

Coercion and Monopsony in Modern American Manufacturing: Evidence from Alabama Prison Labor Susan Helper Suresh Naidu Akseli Palomaki Adam Reich Aaron Sojourner We study coercion and monopsony in contemporary U.S. manufacturing labor markets. We combine administrative data from the Alabama Department of Corrections work release program with a unique survey of workers in the Alabama auto supply chain where workers report their work-release status. We first present descriptive patterns of work-release labor, finding that the use of incarcerated (i.e., work-release) labor is concentrated in the auto supply industry, especially in the Montgomery area, where Hyundai’s assembly plant is located. In the survey, the share of plant-level workers who are incarcerated is negatively correlated with non-incarcerated wages. The survey also enables estimation of hypothetical quit elasticities separately among incarcerated and non-incarcerated workers. Incarcerated workers are estimated to have quit elasticities less than half that of non-incarcerated workers. Because Alabama law requires employers to pay the same wage to incarcerated and non-incarcerated workers in the same jobs, the additional monopsony power introduced by employer access to incarcerated workers creates an incentive and ability for employers to reduce plant-level wages to, and employment of, non-incarcerated workers. We build a quantitative model of firm-specific labor supply that, for incarcerated workers, distinguishes the roles of coercion (the risk of physical harm in prison from not working), wage garnishment that blunts the consumption effect of higher wages, and monopsony (limited mobility across employers). Using it, we estimate effects on free and incarcerated workers’ welfare from i) reforming prison conditions to eliminate violence, ii) eliminating prison labor wage garnishment, iii) imposing a $15 minimum wage, &iv) abolishing prison labor. Free worker welfare goes up in all scenarios...

How does employer access to prisoners’ labor through work release impact the well-being of those workers & of free workers?

New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL
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I always stay at the Gaylord. It’s the only place in town where I can’t see that sign from the window

It’s like what’s next, $20 an hour?

@worldbollardassoc.bsky.social Not an exaggeration to say that bollards are a pillar of our democracy

A guy has a big coffee and isn't sure how to drink it

I can't find it anywhere on the internet anymore, so posting one of my fav @ryanpequin.bsky.social comics. "Big Coffee Comix"

Every single report to shareholders from a large REIT includes something about how it's great that market-rate multifamily housing isn't getting built in high-cost coastal cities because the shortage is what allows them to rent gouge.

Optimal air fryer tofu packing arrangement

[E-40 voice] Anatoly Karpov

It’s weird that of all the scifi media predicting the future Tim and Eric’s Celery Man sketch got it the closest

Wow not much help for people lost in hedge mazes, to say nothing of labyrinths, but go off I guess

Who else up boring through they polyhedra

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That is % of imputed prices that are imputed from a different area, not % of all prices that are imputed

Mariners montage where every time Naylor gets hit in the head he starts coming up with increasingly genius play ideas

no worries, I followed you on an off the record basis 🤙😎

I hope you post more on here. I went to X to read one of your posts but it was next to a post about racial IQ differences and I stopped reading

the only time i was in key west, we went on a ghost tour, and midway through the tour our guide got confronted on the street by a dude he owed money to. there was a lot of hushed "please don't do this right now i'm at work" type conversation going on. the rest of the tour felt different

Excuse me miss, may I ecstatic dance with your dog?